This post was originally published May 25, 2007.

I’ve just finished submitting a patch to PSMTabBarControl, an open source implementation of Safari’s tab bar. It’s probably most well-known as the Adium tab bar, implemented as part of Google SoC 2006. Unfortunately, while the switch to new tabs in Adium brought handy features like tab directions, we lost the ability to scrub — that is, switch between tabs more rapidly by holding the Option key and moving the mouse across the tabs without clicking. It’s a handy feature for checking on unread messages while Adium is in the background and for skimming through multiple tabs in general.

If you’re a developer interested in adding tabs to your application, PSMTabBarControl is now part of the maccode project at Google Code. You can view my patch there.

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